General Motors U.S. Sales Up 16 Percent To 234,071 Units In July 2013: By The Numbers
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General Motors reported sales of 234,071 units in the United States in July 2013, up 16 percent compared to July 2012.
“For GM, July was the most well-balanced month of the year from a retail sales standpoint: trucks were hot, but so were small cars and family vehicles,” said Kurt McNeil, vice president, U.S. sales operations. “Our experience shows that the difference between good sales and great sales in a slow-growth economy is how many new products you have to offer, and we are starting to hit our sweet spot.”
Retail sales during the month increased 23 percent, while fleet sales declined 6 percent.
July 2013 sales highlights (vs. July 2013):
- GM passenger car sales were up 24 percent year over year, including a 42 percent increase in mini-, small and compact car deliveries.
- Chevrolet car sales were up 31 percent driven by a record month for the Spark, record July sales for the Cruze and a 38 percent increase for the Impala.
- Cadillac car sales were up 34 percent on the strength of the new ATS and XTS.
- Pickup, van and SUV sales were up a combined 16 percent with full-size pickups up 44 percent – the best July since 2007.
- About 15 percent of full-size pickup sales were all-new 2014 crew cabs. Double-cab models are now being shipped to dealers and regular cab production begins later this summer.
- Crossover sales were up 6 percent, with the redesigned Chevrolet Traverse and Buick Enclave up 33 percent and 14 percent, respectively. Sales of the all-new Buick Encore increased 39 percent from June 2013.
July Retail Sales Highlights (vs. July 2012):
- All four brands posted double-digit retail sales increases and Buick retail sales have now increased for 15 consecutive months.
- Full-size pickup deliveries were up 51 percent and crossover sales increased 18 percent.
- Deliveries to small business customers increased 61 percent, including a 107 percent increase in full-size pickup deliveries.
- Sales of the Chevrolet Malibu increased 31 percent and the Chevrolet Equinox had its best-ever July retail sales with deliveries up 9 percent.
- GMC Terrain sales were up 24 percent for its best-ever July.
2013 - July - USA - Chevrolet
MODEL | YOY MONTHLY CHANGE | 2013 | 2012 | YOY YTD CHANGE | YTD 2013 | YTD 2012 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CHEVROLET TOTAL | +17.08 | 162,670 | 138,942 | +7.01 | 1,177,804 | 1,100,604 |
AVALANCHE | -17.94 | 1,496 | 1,823 | +4.28 | 13,374 | 12,825 |
AVEO | * | 0 | 2 | -96.55 | 2 | 58 |
CAMARO | +15.06 | 7,969 | 6,926 | -11.2 | 50,281 | 56,623 |
CAPRICE | -63.6 | 182 | 500 | +3.21 | 1,734 | 1,680 |
CAPTIVA SPORT | -34.9 | 2,548 | 3,914 | +25.07 | 27,310 | 21,835 |
COBALT | * | 0 | 0 | -100 | 0 | 11 |
COLORADO | -94.95 | 207 | 4,096 | -87.32 | 3,241 | 25,553 |
CORVETTE | -32.02 | 671 | 987 | -20.79 | 6,344 | 8,009 |
CRUZE | +70.17 | 25,447 | 14,954 | +23.52 | 159,136 | 128,838 |
EQUINOX | -7.03 | 18,507 | 19,906 | +10.79 | 144,904 | 130,796 |
EXPRESS | -40.29 | 5,569 | 9,327 | -2.06 | 46,171 | 47,144 |
HHR | * | 0 | 0 | -85 | 3 | 20 |
IMPALA | +38 | 12,915 | 9,359 | -10.72 | 96,297 | 107,854 |
MALIBU | +1.04 | 12,473 | 12,345 | -19.64 | 123,573 | 153,782 |
SILVERADO | +45.24 | 42,080 | 28,972 | +27.38 | 284,666 | 223,480 |
SONIC | -3.55 | 6,055 | 6,278 | +5.03 | 50,960 | 48,518 |
SPARK | +163.49 | 3,847 | 1,460 | +1368.15 | 21,435 | 1,460 |
SUBURBAN | +39.06 | 6,181 | 4,445 | +1.2 | 27,844 | 27,513 |
TAHOE | +17.61 | 7,119 | 6,053 | +21.99 | 47,976 | 39,327 |
TRAVERSE | +32.54 | 7,616 | 5,746 | +11.53 | 60,910 | 54,612 |
VOLT | -3.3 | 1,788 | 1,849 | +9.16 | 11,643 | 10,666 |
2013 - July - USA - GMC
MODEL | YOY MONTHLY CHANGE | 2013 | 2012 | YOY YTD CHANGE | YTD 2013 | YTD 2012 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
GMC TOTAL | +14.12 | 39,356 | 34,487 | +10.41 | 260,052 | 235,528 |
ACADIA | +2.35 | 7,564 | 7,390 | +9.09 | 54,056 | 49,550 |
CANYON | -96.94 | 22 | 720 | -85.88 | 898 | 6,361 |
SAVANA | -47.23 | 1,400 | 2,653 | -34.67 | 9,610 | 14,709 |
SIERRA | +49.32 | 16,582 | 11,105 | +23.99 | 104,215 | 84,050 |
TERRAIN | +3.42 | 7,855 | 7,595 | +8 | 58,531 | 54,197 |
YUKON | +26.53 | 2,790 | 2,205 | +0.19 | 14,895 | 14,867 |
YUKON XL | +11.49 | 3,143 | 2,819 | +51.32 | 17,847 | 11,794 |
2013 - July - USA - Buick
MODEL | YOY MONTHLY CHANGE | 2013 | 2012 | YOY YTD CHANGE | YTD 2013 | YTD 2012 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BUICK TOTAL | +13.91 | 16,393 | 14,391 | +12.09 | 117,230 | 104,589 |
ENCLAVE | +13.83 | 4,963 | 4,360 | +14.21 | 36,804 | 32,226 |
ENCORE | * | 3,176 | 0 | * | 15,428 | 0 |
LACROSSE | -13.87 | 3,446 | 4,001 | -19.96 | 27,928 | 34,893 |
LUCERNE | * | 0 | 11 | * | 9 | 954 |
REGAL | -33.46 | 1,187 | 1,784 | -39.76 | 10,007 | 16,612 |
VERANO | -14.5 | 3,621 | 4,235 | +35.92 | 27,054 | 19,904 |
2013 - July - USA - Cadillac
MODEL | YOY MONTHLY CHANGE | 2013 | 2012 | YOY YTD CHANGE | YTD 2013 | YTD 2012 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CADILLAC TOTAL | +16.66 | 15,652 | 13,417 | +30.31 | 99,331 | 76,229 |
ATS | * | 2,905 | 0 | * | 22,088 | 0 |
CTS | -39.09 | 2,889 | 4,743 | -40.38 | 18,022 | 30,226 |
DTS | * | 0 | 20 | * | 19 | 449 |
ESCALADE | -1.6 | 1,105 | 1,123 | -4.71 | 6,782 | 7,117 |
ESCALADE ESV | -3.23 | 688 | 711 | +1.28 | 4,515 | 4,458 |
ESCALADE EXT | +11.66 | 182 | 163 | +37.26 | 1,341 | 977 |
SRX | +0.65 | 4,943 | 4,911 | -4.7 | 28,933 | 30,361 |
STS | * | 0 | 7 | -95.3 | 7 | 149 |
XTS | +69.06 | 2,940 | 1,739 | +607.22 | 17,624 | 2,492 |
2013 - July - USA - GM Total
BRAND | YOY MONTHLY CHANGE | 2013 | 2012 | YOY YTD CHANGE | YTD 2013 | YTD 2012 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
GM US TOTAL | +16.32 | 234,071 | 201,237 | +9.06 | 1,654,417 | 1,516,950 |
BUICK | +13.91 | 16,393 | 14,391 | +12.09 | 117,230 | 104,589 |
CADILLAC | +16.66 | 15,652 | 13,417 | +30.31 | 99,331 | 76,229 |
CHEVROLET | +17.08 | 162,670 | 138,942 | +7.01 | 1,177,804 | 1,100,604 |
GMC | +14.12 | 39,356 | 34,487 | +10.41 | 260,052 | 235,528 |
The CTS is really hurting Cadillac’s overall sales numbers. The 2014 model can’t come soon enough.
CTS sales are down mostly because of the ATS. Combined ATS & CTS sales are much higher than CTS alone. ATS is drawing some CTS customers as well as a significant amount of conquest sales. There maybe be a few lost CTS customers waiting for 2014, but CTS is moving up market with the new model.
What do you expect the CTS to do? Its on its way out the door! You know this so why post crap like that? Smart people look at those numbers and say those numbers will be taken care of when the new CTS gets here!
Yes the new CTS needs to be here but its in the process of being put into production and will be here very soon!
I tell you some people will take any chance they can to poke GM!
While some of it is conquest sales by the ATS and XTS, and some of it is due to the fact the CTS is relatively old, the main reason why CTS sales are down are due to vehivle turnover. At some point GM will decide it is prudent to stop making the current generation of the CTS and eventually they will stop all together if they haven’t yet. What GM tries to do is determine how many CTS vehicles they can sell by the launch of the new model. Then before they retrofit the the plant at which the CTS vehicles are made they jack up production to cover the amount of time the plant will be inoperable due to retrofitting for the new CTS. So they have to build enough old CTS vehicles to cover the retrofit of the plants, as well as the ramping up of the new CTS before its shipped. Its obvoiusly a bad idea to sell an old gen next to a new gen so keeping inventories low of the older model is a priority. Furthermore, GM must deal with suppliers, and that went into factoring how many of the older CTS they would make and it comes down to economies of scale. Last point GM before bankrupty would not ever slow down production, because it would cost money. That was the old rationale but now they would rather keep inventories low to avoid having to sell the older gen models at discount and therefore lose money. Every vehicle is different there trucks were a bit more seamless is suppose. Maybe but their production is nowhere near capacity, and the profits on the older models was huge so you could sell them at a large discount and still make money. It seems any lower volume car has a more noticable drop in sales, due to turnover. Look at the Corvette. Sorry this may have been excessive.
Great sales results especially considering that they were achieved with falling fleet sales. The only major weakness in GM’s armor is weak sales of midsizers Malibu and Regal. They are fine cars but don’t offer significantly more room than Cruze and Verano. Good thing that the refreshed models should appear soon. Cadillac keeps the momentum. New CTS should help.
Excellent news overall. The strong increase in retail sales is most impressive. However, a couple of major players, Malibu, Regal and CTS, are still in the red; hopefully the refreshed and redesigned models will yield better sales. Especially the Malibu. It’s dropped to the 7th overall spot in its class for the month of July. But as for the CTS its weak sales will most definitely make a strong turnaround. I’m a bit skeptical about the Regal’s future though………I wonder how much of an impact will its virtually unchanged exterior design and improved interior design have on Buick.
I really don’t see what the problem with the Malibu and Regal! I have a Malibu and I have drove many Regals and for the life of me I cant find anything about them that make me say I would never own these cars!
The size of these cars really make me wonder what people are thinking! Do people just look at posted numbers and say this car is not as good as that one cause it has less interior room?
As for the back seat and trunk space, this is the two things that make me wonder what people are thinking when they say yes or no to a car?
Most people who buy any car spend the vast majority of the time in the front seats and never put their butts in the back seats, so why does the back seat interior room matter to these people?
The trunk has similar thoughts, people complain about trunk size but how often do you load up the trunk to make a haul? I load up once a month to go to the airport, if you are finding yourself loading up a trunk on a regular basis then maybe you need a different kind of car!
As for these cars, they have plenty of power, get good enough mpg’s, are almost noise free, handles very good, very comfortable to drive, mylink works just fine if you take the time to read the owners manual and learn how to use it, unlike the people that work for the car mags they just start punching the screen and wonder why things don’t work very well!
I like where GM is headed!
I agree with you entirely. Unfortunately, the Malibu is in an extremely competitive market segment, and the car isn’t a particular stand-out. Two things about that:
1. I would take the Malibu over any other car in the segment, although the new Fusion is also attractive (in all respects, not just in the styling department).
2. For years, the mainstream midsize sedan segment was defined by the boring Camry and Accord, and the two are still the sales leaders of the segment. But how much has the segment changed over the last 2-3 years! Perhaps staid and boring isn’t good enough anymore, and segment contenders need to be able to soberly differentiate themselves, whether it’s with value, design, engineering, or other kinds of superiority.
For its part, the Malibu is somewhere in-between staid and exciting. It could use an improvement in “basic” features (leg room, etc.) , and it could use some more excitement, as well. But the negative (or at least not overly positive) reviews can’t be helping its sales in the least.
Overall, the car’s sales performance today is ok — but it still sells roughly half of what the Camry (34,780 units sold in July) and Accord sell in the U.S., something that the last-gen model did as well:
http://gmauthority.com/blog/2010/04/how-much-longer-will-toyotas-camry-outsell-the-chevy-malibu-at-a-21-ratio/
Part of the problem, of course, is that the Chevy brand isn’t particularly strong in consideration when it comes to the midsize sedan segment… but that shouldn’t be an issue, as GM has demonstrated time and time again that it can enter very competitive segments and perform very well when it wants to. Prime examples are the Cruze, Sonic, and ATS. The new Impala will also be on that list in due time.
Ultimately, I’m really anxious to see the next-gen E2XX-based Malibu in 2-3 years — and the ensuing launch campaign of massive proportions that will undoubtedly follow. Chevy needs a clean slate, developed with adequate financial and engineering/design resources, in this segment, and the next-gen ‘Bu should fir the bill, even though the current car is already “good”.
GMs recent decision to delay the refreshed/redesigned Cruze is a mistake. Keep the momentum going and stay competitive. It’s a great car but it will look old PDQ compared to the competition if they wait too long.
We’ll see about that… if the additional time helps GM add significant value to the next-gen model, then it’s all good.